Re: Additional link flags for HP aCC and SGI CC

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Bob!

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
>> Libtool is designed to work without automake and autoconf too.  So,
>> although your solution works well for you, it will be of benefit to the
>> most people if we can move it into libtool itself along with all the
>> other compiler specific knowledge that is stored there.
> 
> Libtool does not really work without autoconf.  If you choose to use an
> installed libtool script and use a compiler, or compiler options which
> vary from those used when libtool was configured, then incorrect
> operation may result.  It is best to use libtool in conjunction with
> autoconf and do most of the special configuration work in autoconf.

I would say that is working around an implementation fault in libtool
then! :-(

Although I haven't tried it, I would hope that the installed libtool is
still broadly useful where the user targets the same compiler that libtool
was built for... if not, we shouldn't be installing it!  I know that there
are some compiler options that effectively run a different backend, and
I think that it is understandable that libtool fails in those cases, but
the rest of the time libtool was designed to be useful from a vanilla
Makefile with no automake or autoconf pretense.

I am looking forward to redoing the test-suite (again!) with autotest,
and getting better test coverage to shake out any regressions we have
in underused areas like this :-)

Cheers,
        Gary.
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